[fintstone]

Back to better design of the "system" that that failed/ran out of water. According to a firefighter that was at the Palisades fire 'these homes were not typical. They were very large (15,000 ft mansions) and hydrants were over 1000 ft apart with only a 2.5 inch warf hydrants instead of 4 inches meaning there was not enough flow to extinguish fires. The homes were commercial sized buildings. The firefighters could have saved a lot more if they had been able to put up a water curtain but couldn't because they ran out of water.' If this is the case I think that code should require the appropriately sized hydrants...if for nothing else, the safety of responders. Of course, one would still need sufficient water (more than the tiny reservoirs in the Palisades and the dry Santa Ynez Reservoir could supply this time).